1、英语部分专项练习七银行校园招聘考试英语部分专项练习（七）Part I Reading Comprehension Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-4, markY （for YES） if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N （for NO） if th
2、e statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG （for NOT GIVEN） if the information is not given in the passage.For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.What Will We Do For WorkI believe that 90% of white-collar jobs in the U.S. will be eith
3、er destroyed or altered beyond recognition in the next 10 to 15 years. Thats a catastrophic prediction, given that 90% of us are engaged in white-collar work of one sort or another. Even most manufacturing jobs these days are connected to such white-collar services as finance, human resources and en
4、gineering.I talked to an old London loader some time back. He allowed that in 1970 it took 108 guys about five days to unload a timber ship. Then came containerization. The comparable task today takes eight folks one day. That is, a 98.5% reduction in man-days, from 540 total to just eight.This time
5、 the productivity aims to reconstructmake that deconstructthe white-collar world. In fact, I see a five-sided movement that will bring to my apparently fantastic “90% in 10 years” prediction.FIRST The destructive nature of the current flavor of competition, dotcom company.Sure, most will fail. But t
6、he survivors will exert enormous pressure fast! on the Big Guys. When an Amazon or a Charles Schwab moves into your neighborhood, youve got moments to react. Or take king entrepreneur Jim Clark of Netscape fame. His latest venture, Healtheon/WebMD, intends to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars
7、of waste out of the health-care system. These new firms aim to create nothing less than havoc in the theaters in which they operate.SECOND Enterprise software.Its a name for the tools that will hook up every aspect of a businesss innards internal organs personnel, production, sales, accountingand th
8、en hook up all that hooked-up stuff to the rest of the “family” of suppliers and the suppliers suppliers and wholesalers and retailers and end users.They are your nightmare, these “white-collar robots.” The complex products from German software giant SAP will do to your companys internal organs exac
9、tly what robots and containerization did to the blue-collar world in 1960. Installing these tools is not easy. The technical part is distressing; the politics are dreadful. When the blue-collar robots arrived, the unions revolted against it. This time its management official who are opposing technol
10、ogical change. Why? These tools threaten their comfortable status, carefully crafted over several generations.But the robots did come. And they triumphed.THIRD OutsourcingM.I.T.s No. 1 computer professor, Michael Dertouzos, said India could easily boost its GDP by a trillion dollars in the next few
11、years performing secret white-collar tasks for Western companies. He guessed that 50 million jobs from the white-collar West could go south to India, whose population hit 1 billion last week. The average annual salary for each of those 50 million new Indian workers: $20,000.FOURTH The Web.Ford, GM a
12、nd DaimlerChrysler announce a rare combination. They will link all their tens of thousands of suppliers into a single, Internet-based network. This entity will include $250 billion annually of suppliers products （and perhaps an additional $500 billion of those suppliers suppliers products）. In short
13、, every penny of waste will be compressed from the huge procurement system. The order cycle will speed up dramatically. Medibuy aims for the same hat trick in medical supplies, DigitalThink in training, CarStation in the auto-body-shop world. This is the white-hot world of B2B （business to business）
14、 electronic commerce, which will soon encompass trillions of dollars in transactions.FIFTH Time compression.It took 37 years for the radio to get to 50 million homes. The Web got there in four. Hence my belief that while it took about a century to revolutionize blue-collar job practices, this brave
15、new white-collar social system will be mostly installed in a tenth of that time10 years.Each of these five forces is fact, not image. Each influences the others multiplicatively. Therefore I am unwilling to withdraw my predictions about the power of the white-collar storm bearing down on us. Upsetti
16、ng madness is in process. These forces are liberating. Blue-collar robots work out of factory and warehouse. The same will happen to white-collar work. My dad did it for 41 years at theBaltimore Gas & Electric Co. He was, sad to say, a white-collar indentured servant（契约佣工）.The world is going through
17、 more fundamental change than it has in hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. The head economist Sandia National Laboratories, Arnold Baker, said its the“ biggest change since the cavemen began bartering.” Do you want to be player, a full-scale participant who embraces change? Here is the opportunit
18、y to participate in the lovely, messy playground called “Lets reinvent the world.”Heres a new role model I call Icon Woman:She is turned on by her work!The work is cool!She is an adventurer!She is the CEO of her life!My Icon Woman, of course, embraces and exploits the Web.She submits her resume on t
19、he Web and keeps it perpetually active there.She is recruited and negotiates and is hired on the Web.She is trained on the Web.She creates and conducts brilliant projects on the Web via a far-flung“ virtual” stable of teammates （most of whom shes never met）.She manages her career on the Web. And she
20、 has a personal website!In approximately 2010, she will be at home, workingfor the next several monthsfor Ford on a cruel difficult engineering problem. Her 79-member project team, only one of whom shes met face-to-face （she considers face-to-face as a quaint idea）, comes from 14 nations. Her fully
21、wired home is her castle.You maybe disprove. Is this“ be wild and crazy and Webby and CEO of your own life” pictureanything other than New Age/new economy?I think it is relevant and real rather than wild and crazyon at least two important scores.One is that though my “house” is in Vermont, Ive hung
22、my professional license in Palo Alto since 1981. All is breaking loose “out there/here.” These folks may sound weird, but they may also be redefining the world.Two is back to the future! I constantly remind my middle-aged seminar participants that the quintessential Americans are changingWho are? Be
23、n Franklin （the father of self-help literature）. Ralph Waldo Emerson （self-reliance was his trait）. Walt Whitman, motivational leader Tony Robbins, and Bentonville, Arkansas Sam Walton and Bill Gates.Two is back to the future! I constantly remind my middle-aged seminar participants that the quintess
24、ential Americans are changingWho are? Ben Franklin （the father of self-help literature）. Ralph Waldo Emerson （self-reliance was his trait）. Walt Whitman, motivational leader Tony Robbins, and Bentonville, Arkansas Sam Walton and Bill Gates.WHAT IF?Maybe the wild new-economy America is the old Americ
25、a. Truer to ourselves. We came here to break free, to make our records in our awkward ways.Like Grandpa, I am facing extinction, only by this new set of powerful forces. I make most of my living giving live seminars and training programs and as a management consultant. Its all gravitating to the Web
26、gravitating. Its moving at the speed of light. I am scrambling to reinvent myself, to not just “cope” but to exploit the new communication and connection media.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。1. In U.S., the 90% of the jobs are white-collar jobs as finance, human resource and engineering.2. Containerization make
27、s a 98.5% reduction in man-days on unloading the ship.3. Amazon wants to develop the Health eon/web MD to save hundreds of billions of dollars.4. The management official wont welcome the blue-collar robots that the unions revolt against.5. The professor Michael Dertouzos guessed that India could inc
28、rease GDP by a trillion dollars in the flowing few years by way of_.6. The combination of Ford, GM and DaimlerChrysler aims to compress waste from _.7. According to the author, it will take about _ to reconstruct new white-collar world.8. The head economist Arnold Baker believed that the world is go
29、ing through the most fundamental change since _.9. The new role model Icon Woman deals with everything about work on _.10. The author is changing himself to take full advantage of _.Part II Reading Comprehension Section ADirections: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incom
30、plete statements.Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.China is in the midst of one of the most remarkable expansions of higher e
31、ducation ever attempted. And although Yun Ying, a professor of physics education at Southeast University in Nanjing, may be only a bit player, shes passionate about reforming science education.Yun is leading her own minirevolution. Her introductory physics course addresses a national priority, namel
32、y, to foster economic growth by producing not just more, but more creative, scientists and engineers.Those two principles underlie her “Bilingual Physics With Multimedia” text and CD-ROM, a freshman course she has been developing since the mid-1980s that has been adopted by 10 Chinese universities. The course not only teaches
